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  • 12 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

guidelines. Companies at this stage often wait too long to hire people experts—both human resources managers and experienced recruiters who get the startup-to-scale scene. That's a big mistake. Investing money in these roles early will... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • Web

Why Your Gift Matters - Alumni

TOTAL) $ 40M Need-based fellowships awarded to MBA students 83 % Portion of the HBS endowment restricted to donor-specified purposes $ 170M The School's investment in faculty research The impact of HBS... View Details
  • 08 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

have little strategic impact.10 Think, in many selling situations, about the design of PowerPoint presentations: some folks are much better than others in doing this, but how much impact do the slides have versus other sales tasks? Other... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

Investment By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Bridging the ESG Data Gap

partner reporting and portfolio monitoring. Launching a startup was not Murday’s original goal in attending HBS. She grew up in a Rust Belt city outside of Chicago and expected to work in the public sector after studying policy at Georgetown. Murday saw the potential... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

and motivating others. She recruited her brothers to tutor students, her Princeton alumni club to paint classrooms, her investment banker friends to help write a budget, and members of the community to organize fundraisers. At the same... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • Web

For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

such as Sustainable Investing , Power and Influence for Positive Impact , and more. Working with MBA Students Summer Associates Students play a valuable role for organizations in tackling issues that utilize... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Research & Ideas

When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details
Keywords: by Glen Justice
  • 11 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

managed for the long term." The research team was interested in several issues: Do short-term companies attract a particular kind of investor? Is investing in these firms riskier than investing in companies... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 25 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

that’s my number one leadership takeaway.” HOME REGION Mexico City, Mexico UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Columbia University PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IGNIA, Home Depot, Houlihan Lokey, Inc., Bank of America Merrill Lynch HBS ACTIVITIES Student Association, Section D president; Women... View Details
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

In the not-too-distant past, many companies secured competitive advantage by investing heavily in internal R&D. Company engineers and scientists built value from the ground up, and protected their intellectual property like lions... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

home. While both types of visits increased registration, home registration visits had a higher impact than information-only visits, indicating that both information costs and administrative barriers impede registration. Home registration... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

big hype. As is usually the case, the truth is somewhere between these two extremes. This article highlights the potential impact of big data on business practices in three broad areas: applications, methods, and infrastructure.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2025
  • Case

Shifting Winds: DEI in Corporate America

By: Clayton S. Rose, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and David Lane
In the 2020s, intense and conflicting social and political pressures challenged organizational leaders around the world. Prominent among these were powerful competing views on workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion programs (DEI) in the United States. Public... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Leadership; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Satisfaction; Diversity; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Employees; Retention; Recruitment; Adaptation; Programs; Consulting Industry; Auto Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Motorcycle Industry; Technology Industry; Education Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Maryland; Tennessee; District of Columbia
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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Year Fall Student clubs: Connect with students who share your interest in social enterprise and entrepreneurship through clubs such as the Entrepreneurship Club , Social Enterprise Club , Social Enterprise Conference , Impact View Details
  • 19 Apr 2023
  • News

A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

in the Internet and telecom bubbles. Those who have money left, or who have new savings coming in and are seeking investments have heard that hedge funds have done well. For example, they've heard that Julian Robertson's Tiger Fund has... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • Fourth Quarter 2007
  • Article

Contingent Claims Approach to Measuring and Managing Sovereign Credit Risk

By: Dale . F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
This paper proposes a new approach to measure, analyze, and manage sovereign risk based on the theory and practice of modern contingent claims analysis (CCA). The paper provides a new framework for adapting the CCA model to the sovereign balance sheet in a way that can... View Details
Keywords: Credit; Investment; Sovereign Finance; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Market Transactions; Mathematical Methods; Valuation
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  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both standard and two-sample instrumental variable strategies, we show education increases financial market participation, measured by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2021
  • Lessons from the Classroom

What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

balancing perseverance and flexibility when implementing a strategy. He says this war also demonstrates the potential impact of leadership transition on strategy, and the pitfalls of negotiated agreements that do not properly account for... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert